<p>i sure do, because getting into colleges wasnt NEARLY as competitive.</p>
<p>Ten years ago was 1998, and the people born then are only in 4th grade right now. LOL. I understand what you meant to say though.</p>
<p>EDIT: Well, actually college admissions should actually be much easier for them than it is for us right now, so I guess you can argue this too, but I really don't want to with myself back to the 4th grade. Thank you.</p>
<p>We were just unfortunate enough to get caught in the peak years. How annoying. : P</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure the attendant shame that comes from growing up in the 80s precludes the desire to be born any earlier.</p>
<p>Personally, I wish I was born in North Dakota... how many graduating seniors are there in that state? 12? And nearly every college likes to just be able to say all 50 states are represented...</p>
<p>I wish i had the KNOWLEDGE and EXPERIENCE of applying to college/chosing classes and participating in EC;s. That above all else would have helped MORE then being born 10 years ago. </p>
<p>One kid at school got into Yale. I was blown away (literally) after seeing the statistics for the class of 2012. Talk about luck and competetion</p>
<p>Agreed. ^
Looking back, I see the shortcomings of my applications. :</p>
<p>And lol, flippinout.</p>
<p>I second zamzam.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I can't imagine doing the college process without the internet like it is now. It's harder to get in, but I'm pretty sure that without CC I would have gotten into a lot less schools ten years ago (and would have felt worse about it since I couldn't say, as with Harvard, "Well, it's a record year for rejections anyway." :P)</p>
<p>o damn those baby boomers -_-</p>
<p>"o damn those baby boomers -_-"</p>
<p>Why'd our parents' parents have to shack up like that? Even decades later, WWII is still ruining lives. XD</p>
<p>lol to this thread. I guess I would want to be born 10 years ago. Cause I'd be in 4th grade and blissfully ignorant right now. And when I'm in high school and applying to college there will be wayyy less people applying. And I'll be younger 8D!@</p>
<p>No..how bout ten years after we were born? I like today's teknolo-G</p>
<p>Meh. My parents were both technically born a few years outside of the boom, but I was still born in 1990 with everyone else, and all of my cousins that were born from the true boomers are older than me, and had a much easier time getting into college. Go figure.</p>
<p>I don't think people born 10 years before us had such an easy time getting into college. My brother is 10 years older than I am and he told me all throughout the application process how tough it was and how random it was, along with stories of friends of his with super high stats who were all rejected at top schools.</p>
<p>^ yeah but statistically speaking there was less competition (less HS grads and much higher acceptance rates). Anyway I wish I was born in the 1800s, back when the air was clean and nobody worried about school. ^_^</p>
<p>Nope, I like it how it is! I can proudly say I got into colleges during the hardest year so far (pretty big generalization but it seems to be the general consensus on these boards).</p>
<p>This "what if?" is pointless. If you weren't born when you were, you wouldn't have been born at all.</p>
<p>Wikipedia has a chart showing the number of births in the US year by year over the last few decades: Baby</a> boom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p>
<p>Yes, there was a recent peak around 1990. It's still smaller than the peak those of us who were born in the late 1950s experienced.</p>
<p>And the good news for those of you going off to college now is that there will be a lot more people leaving the workforce around the time you're ready to enter it. The job market for college graduates is likely to be good in four years and beyond as more and more of the baby boomers get ready to retire. That's something your baby boomer forebearers didn't experience when we entered the job market.</p>